Bioinspired activation strategies for Peano-HASEL artificial muscle. by Zhaozhen Liu, Harrison McAleese, Andrew Weightman, Glen Cooper

“…<h4>Method</h4>This study developed a finite element model of an artificial muscle consisting of four Peano-HASEL actuators arranged in three parallel groups in a diamond pattern (two actuators in series in the middle-middle actuators, with one actuator in parallel either side-side actuators). …”
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Design of an Improved Hybrid FTC for Faults in Aero-Engine Closed-Loop Control System by Xiaofeng Liu, Chenshuang Luo, Liuqi Xiong

“…Due to the aero-engines in a high temperature, pressure, and spool speed environment, the concurrent faults in actuator/sensor combined with degradation of the aero-engine could arise the problem of closed-loop instability during the flight. …”
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Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control of Plate Vibrations by Manu Sharma, S.P. Singh

“…With presented fuzzy sliding mode approach the actuator voltage time response has a smooth decay. …”
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Fault Estimation Method for Nonlinear Systems With Perturbations Based on Augmented Fault Observer by Yanxiu Sun, Ying Du, Yuping Zhang

“…This paper proposes a robust fault estimation method for nonlinear systems with both actuator and sensor faults. Specifically, a singular system is constructed by combining the state vector of the system with the fault vector of the sensor, and an augmented fault observer is designed by combining the fault estimation algorithm of the adaptive actuator. …”
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A Hybrid Power Series Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm to Obtain a Solution for Buckling of Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Cantilevers Near Small Layers of Graphite Sheets by Aminreza Noghrehabadi, Mohammad Ghalambaz, Mehdi Ghalambaz, Afshin Ghanbarzadeh

“…The minimum initial gap and the detachment length of the actuator that does not stick to the substrate due to the intermolecular forces, as important parameters in pull-in instability of MWCNT actuator, are evaluated by obtained power series.…”
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Reliable Quantized Fuzzy Controller Design for Nonlinear Singularly Perturbed Systems With Markovian Jumps and Dynamic Event Triggered Mechanism by Rabeh Abbassi, Mourad Kchaou, Hamdi Gassara, Houssem Jerbi

“…This paper proposes a novel approach to handling random actuator failures in control systems through robust and reliable control techniques. …”
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A Reduced-Order Controller Considering High-Order Modal Information of High-Rise Buildings for AMD Control System with Time-Delay by Zuo-Hua Li, Chao-Jun Chen, Jun Teng, Wei-Hua Hu, Hou-Bing Xing, Ying Wang

“…Time-delays of control force calculation, data acquisition, and actuator response will degrade the performance of Active Mass Damper (AMD) control systems. …”
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Rancang Bangun Mesin Pengupas Buah Pinang by Ade Hendra, Firman Ridwan

“…The result shown that the machine was capable to peel 1,066 second/piece using AC motor ¼ hp as an actuator.…”
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Nonlinear Attitude and Altitude Trajectory Tracking Control of a Bicopter UAV in Geometric Framework by Vijay Reddy Vundela, Vijay Muralidharan

“…A simple control allocation method is proposed to map between the control wrench and actuator inputs for the Bicopter. A geometric nonlinear attitude and altitude tracking controller is developed for the Bicopter and the asymptotic stability analysis is performed using the Lyapunov method for the closed-loop nonlinear system. …”
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Spatially Filtered Vibration Control of Cylindrical Shells by H.S. Tzou, J.P. Zhong

“…Distributed actuators offer spatially distributed actuations and they are usually effective to multiple modes of a continuum. …”
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Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control for Leader-Follower Multi-Agent Systems with Time Delay by Chang Zhang, Yawei Wu, Lina Yao

“…Under the guidance of the directed graph, this paper studies the fault diagnosis (FD) and fault-tolerant control (FTC) of the leader-follower multi-agent systems (MASs) with time delay. Actuator faults and disturbances are considered in this study, which make the work of this paper more challenging. …”
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Finite-Time Orbit Control for Spacecraft Formation with External Disturbances and Limited Data Communication by Lei Xing, Dechao Ran, Jian Zhang, Li Huang

“…A hysteretic quantizer is employed for data quantization in the controller-actuator channel to decrease the communication rate and prevent the chattering phenomenon caused by the logarithmic quantizer. …”
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Design of a Small Quadruped Robot with Parallel Legs by Ming Lu, Baorui Jing, Hao Duan, Guanbin Gao

“…The rotation angle of each actuator for the quadruped robot is analyzed by the inverse kinematics algorithm. …”
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Fuzzy-Approximation-Based Novel Back-Stepping Control of Flexible Air-Breathing Hypersonic Vehicles with Nonaffine Models by Xingge Li, Gang Li

“…Aiming at the saturation problem of actuator, a saturation auxiliary system is designed to transform the original control problem with input constraints into a new control problem without input constraints. …”
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Optimal Sensor Communications in Presence of Transmission Delays and Bandwidth Limitations by M. M. Share Pasand, M. Montazeri

“…In a distributed sensor (and actuator) network, several sensors may be lumped to a single transmitter or communicate via a remote terminal unit. …”
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Compact Quantum Cascade Laser-Based Noninvasive Glucose Sensor Upgraded with Direct Comb Data-Mining by Liying Song, Zhiqiang Han, Hengyong Nie, Woon-Ming Lau

“…Beyond increasing the measurement accuracy to the FDA accuracy benchmark, even without a pressure actuator, direct comb data-mining upgrades the sensor system with speed and data integrity, which can impact the healthcare of diabetic patients. …”
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Coordinated Compliance Control Method of Five-Axis Redundant Industrial Manipulator Based on Monocular Vision by Hua Cen

“…According to the acquired object target position, the traditional Euler angle is used to calculate the actuator posture impedance at the end of the robotic arm, thereby realizing the coordinated compliant control of the five-axis redundant industrial manipulator. …”
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Compound Attitude Maneuver and Collision Avoiding Control for a Novel Noncontact Close-Proximity Formation Satellite Architecture by He Liao, Jinjin Xie, Xiaodong Zhou, Chuang Yao, Zhongxing Tang, Yanbin Zhao, Jirong Qi

“…Secondly, the collision avoiding control with disturbance observer-based feedforward compensation is proposed to guarantee the synchronization of the two separated modules within the small air clearance constraint of the noncontact Lorentz actuator. Finally, a physical air-floating platform is established to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.…”
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Development Path Planning of Sports and Wellness Town under the Background of Computer Virtual Reality Technology by Lichun Chen, Bingxu Lu

“…Moreover, in order to deal with unknown time-varying actuator faults and uncertain disturbances of the system, an improved cost function is constructed in this article, which guarantees the expected performance index of the original system. …”
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Preventing Ischial Pressure Ulcers: II. Biomechanics by Hilton M. Kaplan, Lucinda L. Baker, Rahman Davoodi, Nga Ting Wong, Gerald E. Loeb

“…Historically gluteus maximus (GM) has been considered an important actuator in attempting to redistribute seated pressures through NMES.…”
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